The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

ArthriticOldThing

Oooh pops hope you enjoy the airshow. Where I live is over the river but we get wonderful view of the show and even some flyovers as the planes have to come this far to turn around.:j
Funnily enough I was born and raised in Ferryhill which is not far from Bishop Auckland. I remember some horrendous shopping being dragged (by my mum) up Bishop main street among the crowds.:mad::mad:
Its so muggy here now - looks like another sleepless night.

shegar

mardatha wrote: »

...And I'm the only one on this thread who doesn't know what a Kent accent sounds like
Shegar, is your accent like Lowestoft? My fav aunty was from there and she had such a lovely accent, very broad.

WMF, Yes you are right about the accent in Lowestoft.....

Yea mar very very broad accent , when im near anyone posh.:eek: I try to put my telephone voice on, but just cant keep it up....

We say " cort ta ell bor (boy) how ya gittin on, hint cin ya far a long toime im oilroit gel.(girl) how arh them thar hins (hens) doing ........Ha ha ........Lowestoft is about 22 miles from me, thats one of our nearest towns........Sheila.......

Popperwell

AOT I shall give you a wave:wave:

Mrs_Chip

Welcome Usagi!

Just down from the garden and the BBQ, which was lovely but so hot in the sun!

You can listen to different dialects and accents here - http://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialects by county. I love listening to different accents, I fear that everyone will eventually sound the same! Here we have lovely Welsh of course, but I love the Norfolk and Suffolk burr. I was born in north London, and can spot that accent a mile off, we moved to Essex and there were some 'proper' Essex accents there, much like the Suffolk, but different enough. Now everyone from Essex speaks in that awful Estuary English in hyper mode thanks to The Only Way is Essex - :mad:.

Valli

*goes to google her to see how old she is*

a baby!
(mind you she looks older...)

she wants to stop babbling.

Anyway I have picked another punnet of stawberries from my plot - even more than yesterday morning! Woot!

monnagran

Oooh, Pops. Incentivise? That's absolutely shocking. I know language has to go on evolving but there are limits. I'm a bit of a purist and I love language and hate, hate, HATE the way nouns are being turned into verbs and adjectives into adverbs. I spend a lot of time shouting at the TV. Actually, I'm a pretty sad person.

I am going to pick my gooseberries tomorrow. The Rev is salivating at the prospect of gooseberry crumble. I'm also going to have a go at making gooseberry and mint jelly. I bought some a few years back from a Farmers Market and it was delicious with lamb - and not at all bad with beef. or a spoonful in casseroles and stews. I love mint.

Popperwell

Monnagran, I've heard it at least four times and also another variation of it this evening(all politicians)I guess now I have spotted it I'll notice it all the more. No one seems to say insentive. The media like it too. Ahh well...

Mrs Chip, Thanks for the link to the website linked to dialects I thought that there may be a site like that.

Valli, I think "she" has more hang ups and is less tolerant than myself and I suspect I am at least double her age.

Just watched a clip of Astaire and Rogers on You Tube dancing on roller skates, still looks good after all these years.

mcculloch29

PRINCESSX87 wrote: »

Morning all

Mine is still as strong as ever & sometimes I struggle to understand what bristolians are saying. Like down here they say “where you too”! I say “where are you” & I often get told I’m posh.

Same in Cardiff - "Where you to?" i.e. "Where have you got to, where have you reached?"
Makes perfect sense, when you write it like that... doesn't it?!

I don't know if I still say "Where you to?" to mean "Where are you?"
I know I used to, as it confused people, but I've lived in Germany and England for far longer now than I lived in Wales. (18 years Wales, 37 elsewhere).

My voice and accent has never changed though. My oldest friend used to sound just like me, (think of Colin Jackson or Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson) but now she sounds Australian after 23 years there.

Her husband, who is more Valleys Welsh than Cardiffian, still has exactly the same voice that he left Wales with.

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Good Morning all I got fed up trying to sleep so decided to get up and shortly will knock out my small ironing load.
I am an east end girl by birth and have lived in 'sarf London for many years ,now living in the Garden of England.my accent is definitely a London one as I sound on tape very similar to Pauline Quirke :)yet my DDs both say there are times they can hear a hint of Scotland in my voice as both my parents wers Scots and I suppose there are certain words that I do pronounce slightly differently.My late OH came from the IoW but lived in London for almost 40 years.When ever we went back to the Island local chaps he went to school with thought he sounded like 'Dirty Den ' from Eastenders.My late ma-in-law was Hampshire through and through and I love a hampshire accent.
When Rab.C.Nasbit was on t.v. I used to translate what he was saying to my sis-in-law for her as I could understand him quite well i suppose spending a lot of time with relations as a child in Scotland helped :)

The media buzz word that politicians use a lot which really irritates me is 'Robust' or 'Basically' usually used in a totally meaningless way.
Oh well, time to set the ironing board up before it gets too hot.Sun is up and blazing away already.Have a good week end everyone and keep hydrated with lots of water
Cheers chums
JackieO xxx

VJsmum

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Now everyone from Essex speaks in that awful Estuary English in hyper mode thanks to The Only Way is Essex - :mad:.

:eek::eek:Ahem !!

as someone who was born IN the estuary ( well on an island in it anyway) I could take offence at that. But, I won't cos I don't have the the full blown accent, though I slip into it from time to time. "Dan the tan" (down the town), and "cam rand to ar ahs" (come round to our house) are not things I say - much my OH says I slip into it as we cross the dartford bridge and the kids sometimes pick me up on it. Everyone back home thinks I am posh, however, so it can't be too bad. I am going back today for the day so I may revert to type :cool: mum always said I spoke perfectly until I started school. You a right, it isn't the best accent.

JackieO wrote: »

Good Morning all I got fed up trying to sleep so decided to get up and shortly will knock out my small ironing load.

The media buzz word that politicians use a lot which really irritates me is 'Robust' or 'Basically' usually used in a totally meaningless way.
Oh well, time to set the ironing board up before it gets too hot.Sun is up and blazing away already.Have a good week end everyone and keep hydrated with lots of water
Cheers chums
JackieO xxx

Oh I wish you hadn't mentioned the ironing, as I am up early I don't have much of an excuse for not doing some.:p

Stay :cool: guys